Americans are making progress in working down their heavy debt burden, but they are struggling to break out of another funk holding back the economy: their deep pessimism.
A woman, Doris Gillespie, was burned alive in her NYC apartment building on Saturday night after a man trapped her in an elevator, covered her with accelerant and set her on fire while surveillance camera caught the entire incident on video.
A 64-year-old New York woman was attacked and burned to death shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday in the elevator of her Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, building. Police told The Associated Press on Sunday that a 47-year-old man smelling of gasoline walked into a police station overnight and said he was responsible for killing the woman in the elevator.
Woman Burnt Alive in the Elevator of a NYC Apartment
The federal government's Home Affordable Modification Program is far from perfect, said Josh Zinner, an advocate with the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project in New York, "but the biggest problem is servicers not doing their job."
Bringing in Henry could be a cost-effective option for the Gunners.
CME Group Inc., which has given $22 million to Chicago-area schools and charities during the past five years, has stopped making grants through its main foundation, citing the collapse of MF Global Holdings Inc.
Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters took to New York City's streets on Saturday in an attempt to establish a new encampment, with scores arrested as they tried to move onto church-owned land.
MSG Network, which airs games of the NBA's Knicks, and hockey games of three New York teams including the Rangers, Islanders and Devils, has a contract with Time Warner NYC that expires on December 31. The parties have been negotiating a new deal for a couple of years but haven't reached a new agreement, and MSG Network which airs games of the New York teams could be off Time Warner cable Jan. 1.
Madison Square Garden Networks, or MSG TV, televises New York Knicks games and games of four NHL teams, including the local New York Rangers, Islanders, and New Jersey Devils. But after Dec. 31, NYC residents may not be able to see the Knicks or local hockey teams on TV any more since Time Warner Cable NYC may drop MSG.
As oil and gas companies target the Marcellus Shale for hydraulic fracturing, several East Coast states have begun to develop the first comprehensive rules to regulate the process.
Sanford & Son actor Graham Brown died in New jersey on Tuesday of pulmonary failure at the age of 87. A memorial celebration for Brown will take place on a date to be announced later.
MVRDV's The Cloud has attracted criticism, but the risk taken is essential for design to move forward.
Now something new has been added: in 2012, Ch. 55 will be owned by CBS, whose WCBS 2, has dominated local airwaves for years along with the other network-owned stations, Disney’s WABC 7, and NBCUniversal’s WNBC 4.
Actor Graham Brown, who appeared on stage at London's Globe Theatre and most notably on U.S. television in Law & Order and Sanford and Son, died Tuesday in Englewood, N.J., at the age of 87, according to The Associated Press.
Colton Harris Moore, better known perhaps as the Barefoot Bandit (so named after a famous crime spree that he committed barefoot), has been sentenced to 7-and-a-half years in prison, after he pleaded guilty on Friday in a Washington state court, on all 33 charges against him.
To understand what ails BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. in the U.S. market, just ask eBay Inc. CEO John Donahoe. Recently, his company had a hundred engineers working on apps for Apple's iPhone, another hundred on apps for Google's Android, and only one or two on apps for RIM's BlackBerry.
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A northern California judge has rejected the state's new protocol for lethal injections affecting death penalties. Judge Fay D'Opal, a Marin County Superior Court official, said correction officials had failed to explain why the single injection method, used in some other states, was not considered in the new rules; the current standard is a three drug injection method.
Graham Brown, a New York City born, who appeared on stage at London’s Globe Theatre has died at the age of 87 on Dec. 13 in New Jersey.
A consortium of software giant Microsoft Corp., private-equity group Silver Lake, and venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are reworking their bid for a minority stake in Internet company Yahoo Inc., a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.
British-born journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who made the United States his home and backed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died on Thursday at the age of 62.
